ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (of the Week!) - Television Week!

Episode Date: April 11, 2024

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The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. On today's Fact of the Day of the Week, Vaughn Channel surfs his way through Television Week. It's time for... FACT OF THE DAY! DAY! DAY! DAY! DAY! TV's this week at Fact of the Day. That's the theme.

Okay. TV's. You remember on Friday when we were talking about 20 years ago, like what was happening, and I said 20 years ago TV started being flat and more affordable. Yeah. Not just for the rich. So somebody sent me this saying they were kind of like,

that's right, that's when it happened. They did a Google. Yeah. They did a little Google. I think it's they done a Google. They done a Google. Yeah. And like you might find this article fascinating.

And I said, I find that fascinating. And I jumped and I maybe have got a little bit excited and said the whole week's going to be facts about the TVs. It could be about TV and then you could do TV shows. TV shows. This is specifically about TVs. Okay. In 2004 the average size

of televisions was 25 inches. Okay. The average size television was 25 inches. And they take the measurement diagonally across the screen, right? Corner to corner. Yes, yes, yes. Corner to corner.

Left corner to bottom right. Top left to bottom right. That's 63 centimetres. Okay. Diagonally. It's small, isn't it? It's small, isn't it? It's a smaller TV.

So, no thanks, Papa Bad. And in 2019. Oh, what's it selling? I don't know. It blurred and it didn't load. It was one of those ones that didn't load for ages. And then the X to shut it down came up before I actually saw what the ad was.

I call that a failure in the digital landscape. In 2019, the average screen size was 47 inches. Okay. Now, that's nearly double, not quite. And in 2004, when those TVs were being sold and the average size was 25 inches, only 7% of TVs sold in 2004 were flat panel televisions. Still a massive representation of what we call CRTs.

They were so expensive, weren't they? Yeah, like the early flat screens. A couple of grand for like 32 inches or 40 inch. Well, that's what, and then, so if we go back to 2004, the average selling price of a television was $552. Right. Because CRTs were such a cheap way to buy a television back then. Now, in 2019, the average selling price was $336 per television,

but you'll remember they've doubled in size. Yeah. So they've done a square inch per, dollars per square inch. Oh, yeah. Dollars per square inch of viewing. Yep. In 2004, you were paying $2.15 per square inch. Okay.

In 2019, you were paying 39 cents per square inch. Holy! That's just how much it's changed. The latest average inches, because that was what, 20? That was 2019. I don't have a more... Because I don't want to brag, I reckon it would have gone up heaps

in those six years too. Yeah, I've got 65. I've got 65. Oh, do you? I could go... Oh, I've got a 75. I've got a lot of wall.

I could go... You can go bigger. I think I could go bigger too. I think mine's just right because I don't have a lot of depth in my lounge. Yeah, you don't want to have to push your couch back

if you go too big. Yeah, I'm almost to the wall. I've actually got New Zealand figures. Mine's just right. Because I don't have a lot of depth in my lounge. You don't want to have to push your couch back. I'm almost to the wall. If you go too big. Yeah, I'm almost to the wall. I've actually got New Zealand figures. Oh, fantastic. This is fantastic. So in 2019, we were about the same. In 2020, 48.

And then remember when everybody was stuck at home and like... In lockdowns. In lockdowns and stuff. And they're like, you know, if we could get a bigger TV. Yeah, because you just sat there looking at it every day. It jumped up to 50 inches in 2022. Those one o'clock press conferences looked high definition. Yeah, you've got to look Cindy in the eye.

Tell us what's happening. Kept them looking tight. And then last year it did drop off a little bit. Oh, okay. Let me see smaller televisions purchased. Penny pinching. Cost of living crisis. Maybe.

Dropped down to 48-inch average in 2023 for New Zealand televisions purchased. Because, again, you can't go too big. Otherwise, you have to move your couch back, and people don't have that kind of room. No. Yours is too high. No, my TV's not too high. Vaughan's TV's way too high.

My TV's mounted too high, but we did it purposefully so we can sit at the kitchen table and still see over the couch. If it was low... No. It's like that much too high. Yeah, you're going to have neck issues. Nope. No neck issues.

Your family's going to look like this. No neck issues. They will. Who are we with the Smiths? No one's going to look like that because if you're sitting too close, you're on the beanbag, so you're naturally reclined.

Or if I lie on the floor, I like to lie on the floor. It's embarrassing how high it is. One pillow under the head, prop the head up a little bit. He's just digging his toes in because it's hard wide up to the wall. It's as high as a basketball hoop.

That's how high it is. It's ridiculous. It's almost tilting onto the ceiling. It's that high. It's half on the wall, half on the ceiling. They're being very silly. It's absurd.

He's actually popped it on the roof. It's absurdly high. I would have a TV on the roof. Yeah, like he thinks he's a dentist. And the bedroom, I think a TV on the wall half on the ceiling they're being very silly it's absurd he's actually popped it on the roof it's absurdly hard I would have a TV on the roof yeah like he thinks he's a dentist he's a dentist yeah a dentist ceiling mounted television

would be fantastic in the bedroom I don't every time I'm at the every time I'm at the dentist I'm like who screwed this TV to the ceiling

we don't know some probably apprentice yeah like did they do it and I bet they just used those ones that go into the jib and then anchor point into the jib. All it's holding is up their jib.

I didn't know that's in the stance. I need to know how many dentists or patients have died by televisions falling on their head. Smashing on their face. Google, please. Okay, okay. Can we get a bonus back to the day? Has a dentist ever died by TV falling on their head?

Do you know what? Not the first person to Google that. Has anyone ever died at the dentist? I don't know. We shouldn't be reading that. Someone's probably got a, some of the high dental anxiety has probably got an appointment today.

I'm going to the dentist today. I might die today. Okay, there's a dentist that died from a bleed on the brain, but that was, he was just on TV. I've also got that. Dang. That seems to be really dominating the headlines.

Yeah. That one dentist who had the... TV fell on face dentist. Yeah, I'm not seeing a single incident. Death by falling television. Death by falling television. How long does it take for dental trauma to heal? Google, what is wrong?

My dentist destroyed my phone. The shocking number of deaths caused by falling televisions. Okay. This is an American story. Yeah, but specifically we want to hear it at the dentist. Yeah, well, I wonder if I open up this and then keyword search dentist, nothing. Oh, I spelled dentist wrong. I spelled it dentist.

No, again, nothing. No, I can't find. I spelled it dentist. No, again, nothing. No, I can't find the single. I've gone through pages of results. Well, you know what? Maybe I'm worrying too much there. No, I think you're worrying the appropriate amount. I like to think the irony will be next time you're at the dentist, it will fall and kill you and you'll be the first.

And then we'll Google it and it'll be like, oh my God, it was a French. It was a French. It only happened a few weeks ago. Look at that, it's crazy. We were wondering where he was. Yeah. Dental TV impalement.

Today's fact of the day, nobody's ever died by falling television at the dentist. Sub fact, and from the years 2004 to 2019, the cost per square inch of television went from $2.15 to 39 cents. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.

Yeah. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do- Today's Fact of the Day is about the world's smallest television. Okay. Released in the year 1982. Hell of a vintage. Hell of a year. Is it? Smallest? What size of the Apple Watch screen?

It is a watch. It was the Seiko TV wristwatch. It was launched on the 23rd of December 1982 in Japan. I reckon they left it running for Christmas a bit late. Yeah. Or they did, actually. I reckon that would be a month beforehand. Get a bit of hype.

How is it that- Oh, my God. It's so cool, though. Like, you can imagine hipsters rocking that now. Yeah, 100%. It's like when Casios became big and everyone had the ones with the calculators on them. Get back to the Casios. Yeah.

So it had a black and white screen measuring 30.5 millimetres. So just a smidge over three centimetres wide. So about the Apple Watch now. Okay. Yeah, about that. Together with the receiver unit and headphones, the black and white system weighed 320 grams. Okay. Which kind of is

that is fairly heavy. That would be like a can of coke, right? We're just measuring everything by cans of coke these days. Would that be as heavy as that? Yes. Because I'm thinking 350 mils, right? Is that

the same weight? Yeah, like 330 mils. And cost at the time $1,174 350 mils, right? Is that the same weight? Yeah, like 330 mil, yeah. And cost at the time, $1,174 New Zealand dollars. So if you think about that in 82, that was a ton of money. Also, what kind of TV reception? You'd be going in and out of reception, wouldn't you? Yeah, you'd have to hold your box.

Yeah. The receiver. You might be able to watch it on like public transport. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. So that was the smallest commercially available television. Yeah, right. And in 1982, that's incredible technology.

1982. When you think about it. Yeah. Hell yeah. Lots of people still just rocking black and white TVs. Yeah. And people were rocking around with a black and white TV on their wrist. And then from like being that small on your wrist, that didn't translate into small televisions in people's homes for a long, long time.

You know what I mean? Like small as in not like CRTs real deep. Yeah. Like how did that not translate? It didn't have great clarity. Like the pixelation was quite bad, but you could watch things on it. Amazing. So today's Fact of the Day on TV Week is about the

world's smallest commercially available television. It was made by Seiko and it was released in 1982 and it was a big old whopping 30mm wide. Fact of the Day, Day, Day, Day, day, day, day. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley.

Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. I just have to, I've made a mistake, guys. What have you done, my love? What have you done? Made a big fat boo-boo. Big fat boo-boo. It's TV week here at Fact of the Day. We're learning all about TVs.

Most of it so far has been about the TVs themselves, but today's TV fact is about how much TV Americans watch collectively per year. Oh. These are confronting numbers. Like when you finish a box set or an old show and it's seven seasons and then you're like, wow, that's like two days of my life. Yeah, yeah. Two whole days.

I watched that. So Americans watch 250 billion hours of television collectively a year. Say that again. 250 billion. Oh, dear. So that's 250 billion is 250,000 million in that sense of the billion. Yeah. So let's divide that by-

All right. Nah, that can't be right. I've miscalculated there. 250 billion hours in years is 28.5 million years. That's so many. That's so many years. 8.5 million years every year collectively Americans watch television. Shut up. That's too much years.

That's too much years. There's 333 million Americans as of 2022, according to Google population. So they're watching a lot of television. Yeah. Way too much. Some would argue too much. Too much television.

That's so much. Yeah. I don't know how much I watch. Everything counts as television, by the way. Anything you would watch on a television. Like streaming. It's not traditional terrestrial television. It's everything.

Streaming. What I think we know in terms of what's happening in the TV landscape in New Zealand, really not many people are watching. Traditional terrestrial television. Free-to-air television. It's all the streaming. It's all the online services. Well, we'll stop making it so good and we'll stop watching.

We'll go out for a walk and a banana. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's so good. Yeah. What did you just watch watch it was a short film Masters of the Year Masters of the Year

was fantastic now you've watched something since then I'm watching Succession you're watching Succession for the first time I just started last night

last night Palm Royale Fallout's out today on Prime Video we all just finished Curb Curb. Curb's final season of Curb.

So good. We've been it's pretty pretty good. Pretty good. Pretty good. But yeah I would like to have known

the stats how it compares now to pre-gaming. Because I imagine gaming has taken away a lot of television hours. Well there are

websites you can go to where you can put in all the shows that you've watched or want to watch. It will tell you how much of your time it's going to take. Yeah, I don't want to. It's confronting. It's very confronting.

It is. I don't watch at all. So today's fact of the day is Americans annually watch 250 billion hours of television. Collectively. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day. Fact of the day, day Fact of the Day has been TV week here at Fact of the Day. My man.

The TV. Also a hell of a week for people in TV in New Zealand. Yeah. Really feeling it for some top-notch folks who have been given the sharp end of the pointy stick. Is that what you say? Pointy end of a stick. Shafted. By the pointy end of the stick.

Oh, no. You don't want to be shafted by the pointy end of a stick. If you're going to get shafted, though, you want it to be pointy, not blunt. Shanked, you don't want to be shafted by the pointy end of a stick. If you're going to get shafted though, you want it to be pointy not blunt. Shanked I think you're talking about. Oh, I'm confusing

shafted with shanked. You do two horrible things that I don't want anybody to happen. Yeah, but a lot of good, like we're going to miss this good news and current affairs.

This is how we find things out. We'll have to do it. We have to step into the void. Yep, no more laughing out louder. News out newer. That's the out louder. News out newer.

That's the news saying. News out newer. Fletch, Gordon, Hayley, news out newer. Okay. Just news. Well, the fact today for TV Week is that 2019 was the year that people spent more time watching their phones than they did watching their televisions. Wow. For the first time ever?

For the first time ever. 2019 was the year. In 2014, I think this is out of the US, the average person spent four hours 20 a day watching television and two and a half hours on their phone. In 2019, it went three hours 43 on your phone, three hours 35 on the television. So it's dropped.

Television's dropped away. Phones come right up. And now there'd be a lot of people that don't even have a TV. Yeah, watch it all on their phone. Laptops or iPads or phones. They can watch whatever they want whenever they want it. So yeah, 2019 was that magical year where televisions fell to cell phones as the majority shareholder in our eyeballs.

What year do you reckon it will be when they're like, this is the first year that more people are watching stuff in their brains? Yeah, in their sunglasses. Or in their eyes, just because we've got a screen. A chip. Or like a contact lens TV screen. I honestly feel like it's lens TV screen. Oh, I honestly feel like it's not that far. Yeah.

You'd have a headache. Yeah. It feels headachy. I'm not going to get on board with it. I'm not going to go chip to the brain because I just think I get a headache. You get very headachy, don't you? No,

I don't get a headache. When I get a, I'm very un-headachy. Yeah, me too. When I get a headache, I'm just like, this is terrible.

And then you hear about migraines and they sound, they sound the worst. Oh my God, it's people that have them all the time. My mum gets them. Takes those big fatty pills and stuff. They're awful. My mum gets them too. Do you think it's the margarine?

Could be the margarine. Years of... And the hormones in the chickens. Yeah, years of artificial sweeteners. Yeah. Oh yeah, they loved a bloody... Oh yeah, they love an artificial sweetener. Gotta keep it trim.

Couple of sack tabs even though that brand hasn't existed for decades they still call them that pop them in the tea maybe there's something there hey guys

just got a text in from Aaron you guys are really funny today is that your fiance? yeah how bizarre that he's listening what's he doing listening? I have no idea

this is a safe space for me when did he start listening? this is a safe space for me Aaron you can't listen sometimes I talk about you did he hear the lint ball stuff in Seven? I think that was probably some of the highlights of the show for me. Well, if he's just joined now, he needs to go back.

You have to listen to the podcast, iHeartRadio. Smooth. And also, here we are on Fact of the Day. I will take this time to remind you, as I was asked to do earlier in the week, that Fact of the Day, at the end of every week, there's a Fact of the Day podcast. Now, when they told me this in the office earlier this week, I went, oh the end of every week, there's a fact of the day podcast. Now, when they told me this in the office earlier this week, I went, oh, of course.

First time I'd heard about it. This is your segment. Of course. Brilliant, I said. Of course there is. Brilliant work from the future of the company. That's great.

Gorgeous use of content. What a way to get all the facts in a condensed manner. Yeah. And it must be quite a trip if you are listening to the fact of the day podcast and hearing us reference

the fact of the day podcast. Yes us reference the Fact of the Day podcast. Yes, meta. This is meta, man. This is multi-layered meta. It's gorgeous stuff. Thank you very much for joining us for Fact of the Day TV week. And today's final fact is that 2019 was the year where our phones had more of our eyeball time than our televisions.

Fact of the Day, day, day, day, day. I just heard your tummy go. Yeah, that was my tum-tums. That was my tum-tum-tums. Hey guys, I reckon that was the most fun I've ever had on a show. Ah, not for me. Vaughan? Nowhere even close. Nowhere even close. Nowhere even close. You haven't been here long, have you? No, I haven't.

No. Well, if you were listening and you had fun, why don't you give us a little review and a rating? ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Hayley.